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单词 menial
释义
menial
adjective
disapproving
uk
/ˈmiː.ni.əl/us
/ˈmiː.ni.əl/
Menialworkisboring, makes youfeeltired, and is given alowsocialvalue:
（工作）乏味的，低贱的，不体面的
It'sfairlymenialwork, such aswashingdishesandcleaningfloors.都是些很枯燥乏味的工作，如洗碗和擦地。
a menialjob/task粗活
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Tedious and uninspiring
(Definition ofmenialfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

menial| American Dictionary

menial
adjective
us
/ˈmi·ni·əl/
(ofwork)needinglittleskilloreducation:
a menialjob
(Definition ofmenialfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

menial| Business English

menial
adjective
uk
/ˈmiːniəl/us
used todescribeworkthat does not need anyskillsand isbadlypaidand oftenboring:
menial jobs/tasks/workTheeconomicclimatehasseenoverqualifiedcandidatesapplyingfor asuccessionof menialjobs.
(Definition ofmenialfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmenial

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To a man, they stated that work, no matter howmenial, kept their mind off their present situation.
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Despite these philosophical objections, the majority of citizens and many influential persons did not distinguish between noble andmenialincome earning activities.
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Becoming a skilled laborer was often seen as an alternative to unprofitable and socially disagreeable agricultural work ormeniallabor.
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This would allow a viewer to insert himself in the buildings, rather than as a porter, servant or working classmenial.
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An employee who performsmenialtasks such as running errands and answering phones; an assistant.
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Although he worked first as ameniallabourer, he was soon selling fruit.
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Identification with the mostmenialmembers of society brought the individual closest to the highest sphere of art and its powers of subjective transformation.
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The life of a soldier was strictly organized around daily routines filled with training andmeniallabour.
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Both shared life in community and took part in many of the samemenialtasks considered inappropriate for ladies.
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The reality is more likely to bemenialwork for poor wages.
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Each day 1,400 maunds of nightsoil and 350 cart-loads of rubbish left the city through 'the old ancestral system of manual labour by menials'.
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Overcoming the view of nursing as a subordinate andmenialtask has been difficult, especially as some of nursing's traditional elements are strongly reminiscent of domestic work.
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Twice the proportion of innovators do not believe that children save adults frommenialwork, and a substantially smaller proportion believe that adult children help with the work.
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They are reduced to themenialtask of teaching their clients how to maximize an objective function under predetermined constraints, whatever this function and these constraints may be.
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Mann does not discuss the omnipresent plantons, who did variousmenialtasks.
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